Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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I just think bad vibes and hate and Trump are getting so much airtime, we need to speak out loud for peace and equality and fairness and make sure we all know that there are a lot of us out here in the world that just want love.
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.
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It shows there is serious intent on the part of energy companies like SSE to try to get not only the newer technologies like wind well established but also the very new technologies out of the laboratory and on the ground, generating power.
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Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.
